Price: $24.95 Designed as an around-the-world adventure for gifted students, these activities emphasize creativity, problem solving, inquiry, and critical thinking in the fields of math, language arts, leadership skills, social studies, and science.
Price: $11.95 More than an art class, this book is also a course in thinking. Students learn how to create attractive designs using the techniques of unity, variety, repetition, movement, proportion, and more. Concise information is combined with unique projects that allow students to hone both their their thinking and artistic skills.
Roller Coaster Rock N Roll WebQuest http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/pershing/coaster/ http://www.rcdb.com/is.htm?type=2&status=9 Students will need to have access to computers with a browser and a printer - preferably color. Model-building materials - such as craft sticks and glue guns, or other basic crafting items will also be needed. Many students and parents are willing to provide these. There are some roller coaster videos that would add extra pizzaz to the learning.
Math Central is an award winning site maintained by faculty and students in Mathematics and Statistics and Mathematics Education at the University of Regina in Regina. It exists in both English and French (and Spanish!!) and features famous mathematicians, teacher resources, even a problem of the week… http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/
The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice. More information on many of our other activities can be found here.
Childhood Education: Reading Comprehension Games, Activities, & Practice
http://www.distance-education.org/Degrees/Childhood-Education--Reading-Comprehension-Games---Activities----Practice-A597.html
Mensa
http://www.mensa.org/index0.php?page=12
Get ready to read screening tool
http://school.familyeducation.com/reading/early-learning/46528.html
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National Association for Gifted Children
http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=1498
Academic Challenges
http://www.nagc.org/uploadedFiles/PHP/Competition%20Chart.pdf
http://www.giftedstudy.com/resources/educators/links.asp
http://www.prufrock.com/?gclid=CISP_5i445MCFSQWiQodPjOfWQ
Digital Kids ideas
http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/products/visualcommunicator/lessons/
Passport to Learn
Author: Jacqueline Melin
Price: $24.95
Designed as an around-the-world adventure for gifted students, these activities emphasize creativity, problem solving, inquiry, and critical thinking in the fields of math, language arts, leadership skills, social studies, and science.
Grades 4–8
Design Studio: Integrating Art & Thinking
Author: Dianne Draze
Price: $11.95
More than an art class, this book is also a course in thinking. Students learn how to create attractive designs using the techniques of unity, variety, repetition, movement, proportion, and more. Concise information is combined with unique projects that allow students to hone both their their thinking and artistic skills.
Grades 5–9
KidPix4 Movie Tutorials
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/kidpix_deluxe4/
KidPix4 PowerPoint
http://visalia.k12.ca.us/teachers/dbronzan/profdev/Kid%20Pix%204.ppt
French Printable Texts
http://bdemauge.free.fr/index_litterature.htm
Create a graph
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx?ID=fe42d8504f8743f58663ba86118f75d4
Critical Thinking Grade 8 - The Arts in Renaissance Europe
http://www.carcpd.ab.ca/social/criticalthinking/renaissanceArt_gr8/index.html
Critical Thinking Grade 7 - Riel and MacDonald: Great Leaders?
http://www.carcpd.ab.ca/social/criticalthinking/greatLeaders_gr7/index.html#download
Critical Thinking Grade 8 - Renaissance Thinkers
http://www.carcpd.ab.ca/social/criticalthinking/renaissanceThinkers_gr8/index.html
Science Fair Guide
http://rcrsf.ca/documents/Grade%207%20-%208%20Guide%20to%20Science%20Fairs.pdf
Pre-AP 7/8 info
http://www.mansfieldisd.org/departments/guidance/pdf/ms-courseguide08-09.pdf
Tail of 2 millenium WebQuest
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/ofarrell/calendars/
Roller Coaster Rock N Roll WebQuest
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/pershing/coaster/
http://www.rcdb.com/is.htm?type=2&status=9
Students will need to have access to computers with a browser and a printer - preferably color. Model-building materials - such as craft sticks and glue guns, or other basic crafting items will also be needed. Many students and parents are willing to provide these. There are some roller coaster videos that would add extra pizzaz to the learning.
Inventors workshop
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/invention-leonardoslegacy/
Avalanches
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/ragingplanet-avalanche/
American Sign Language/Sense and Technology
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/sensetechnology/
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
Math challenges
http://www.figurethis.org/download.htm
Math arcade games
http://www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/arcade/
Early Years Mathematics Activities and Games
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/math/games/index.html
Algebraic transformations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L566
Arithmetic Tic-Tod
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lessons/Arithme-Tic-Toc/Arithme-Tic-Toc-AS-AddMultTable.pdf
Lessons
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lessons.aspx
Math Central is an award winning site maintained by faculty and students in Mathematics and Statistics and Mathematics Education at the University of Regina in Regina. It exists in both English and French (and Spanish!!) and features famous mathematicians, teacher resources, even a problem of the week…
http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/
The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice. More information on many of our other activities can be found here.
Math Games
Hexxagon
http://kidrocket.org/game_hexxagon.php
Mastermind
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